QdobaCasanova said
Rountree would’ve won if it weren’t for those cuts on his face. Perrera has a lot of obvious holes in his game — e.g. overzealous in exchanges, lets his guard down entirely when he goes for the kill, doesn’t operate as effectively fighting a southpaw
But Perrera really has a presence about him that I know fighters feel and it makes them fight extremely cautiously.
Rountree’s a true threat in the division and lest we forget that Rountree was actually up 2-1 on the scorecards before he got finished.
Rountree had the right idea in looking for counters whenever Perrera would throw a calf kick or was feinting a high kick.
In the beginning of the 3rd round — maybe first 2 minutes — Perrerra actually seemed to be a bit clueless as to what to do to take Rountree out.
But then Rountree started to gas from relying on counter blitzes and the rest was downhill after that.
For the record, I thought this was going to be over in the first 3 minutes of round 1 with Rountree taking a “let’s get this over with” and charge blindly into a firefight with Perrerra until he got left hooked.
But nawe; dawg was really in it for the long haul and dropped Perrera twice and had him hurt a lot during the fight.
I know people are just gonna glaze Perrerra but I think people really need to rewatch the fight and see how well Rountree was doing and had Perrerra perplexed for just a brief moment.
It was the first and only time Khalil went 5 rounds
You could see him fading at the end of round 2 and 3
Rogan spoke on it and his coaches repeatedly told him to slow it down after the very first round
Typical newcomer
Champs are notorious for letting the new challenger burn themselves out because they know the challenger has not experienced championship rounds
Not only had he not experienced the rounds but he was throwing everything into every punch from the beginning which was unsustainable. Past the third round, he never had a chance and if you watched the promo leading up to the fight, most vets (Dean Thomas) who had been there before spoke on it.
Those extra two rounds feel like torture when you've spent the majority of your career finishing people in three.
There is no such thing as rope-a-dope in MMA, there's just the first 3 rounds then 4 and 5.
Alex didn't really beat Khalil, those championship rounds did.
Last edited by Boxedin1; 10-06-2024 at 06:25 PM..